When Sarah works, it's up to the man 'o the house to change Grace out of her sleeper suits into her crawl-around cloths. (That's me by the way) For the first couple of weeks Sarah would choose an outfit and lay it onto Grace's changing table. Much to her chagrin though, I simply sluffed this new responsibility, leaving grace in her footed PJ's. They were warm, simple, and provided easy access for diaper changed. However, after Sarah's parents visited and I saw how Allan enjoyed choosing Grace's daily outfit, I decided I should at least attempt to do the same.
For the fist 4 days of this week, every time Sarah came home and saw the outfit I had chosen for Grace, she would say the same thing, "That doesn't match!" even though it did match. So on Friday I decided to fall onto old habits and leave Grace in her sleeper. When Sarah came home, I heard a familiar phrase, "You are still in your PJ's?!" So today, I tried extra hard, and even though Sarah hasn't been home yet to ensure I picked matching cloths, I'm so confident that I'm sharing a photo of Grace in her outfit today. I'll report Sarah's reaction when she comes home tonight.
It's official. The granite is in. It looks better than we could have imagined and the pictures just don't do it justice. All the time I spent on having it cut just right was worth it. Next week the appliances all get delivered and installed. In the meantime our contractor is doing touchups throughout the house and painting our closets.
Our family spent the Easter weekend doing yard work outside on a beautiful Saturday and celebrating the holiday with many friends dear to us. Grace got dressed up for Easter service at church and I must say that we have quite the doll on our hands. 
I need to dress her up in dresses more often although right now she's learning tobe more mobile and clothes other than pants are a bit hindering. We hope you all enjoyed the holiday with loved ones.
Grace was not hungry yesterday when it was dinner time. She hadn't even tried her first bite of food and she was scrunching her face, closing her eyes, and clamping her mouth shut. To her credit, she has been a little sick lately, and when she wasn't crying because we were trying to force feed her, this scrunched face was crazy cute. 
So the majority of the cabinets are installed. Still some finishing touches need to be done. These pictures are from earlier in the week. Today all the trim work and doors were painted for the entire upstairs and tomorrow the remainder of the island and bathroom will be painted completing the painting altogether. Next, the granite gets installed on Monday. We can hardly wait to see it.
When I mentioned Sarah is working on improving her photography skills - this is the baseline - the last time we paid for photos. Grace at 9 months. These first two are by far my favorite, mostly due to the expressions on Grace's face, but also the awesome Miami Vice backdrop.
This year's spring has been unusually rainy and cold, even for the Pacific Northwest. Friday, we had a glimpse of what summer will bring. The whole family spent some time getting their vitamin D on Grandma's deck. 
Drywall, mudding, texture, and paint are complete. Next stage - flooring...
